Leviticus
Chapter 12
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
2Speak to the sons of Israel: When a woman conceives and bears a male, she shall be unclean seven days. As the days of her menstrual separation she shall be unclean.
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Niddah is the separation of menstruation. Devotah is her flow. The seven days are counted like those days.
3On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be Marked by cutting off the foreskin, the sign of the covenant for males..
4Thirty-three days she shall sit in the blood of cleansing. She shall not touch anything holy, and she shall not come into the holy place, until the days of her cleansing are fulfilled.
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Demei tohorah is the blood of cleansing, the days after the first seven. Miqdash is the holy place.
5If she bears a female, she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation, and sixty-six days she shall sit over the blood of cleansing.
6When the days of her cleansing are fulfilled, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb in its first year for a whole offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove for an offense offering, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, to the priest.
7He shall bring it before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. and make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for her, and she shall be clean from the spring of her blood. This is the instruction for the one who bears, whether a male or a female.
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Meqor dameha is the spring of her blood, the source of the flow.
8If her hand does not find enough for a sheep, she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a whole offering and one for an offense offering, and the priest shall make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for her, and she shall be clean.